Only around one in three Australians (36%) think the Turnbull Government is doing enough to protect kids in children’s prisons from abuse. This is the finding of a ReachTEL poll commissioned by Amnesty International, ahead of Friday’s release of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory report. The […]
Join our International Council Meeting (ICM) delegates for an update on the results of the resolutions and the changes to global governance that will impact us from early 2018. Our two-yearly International Council Meeting took place in August, seeing amazing moments and achievements made by our member-led global human rights movement. Our six Australian delegates […]
As Australians around the country await the results of the marriage equality survey, due to be announced on 15 November, Professor Mark McMillan explains why marriage equality matters to him, his family and his community. Society can change I am a proud Wiradjuri man and I come from a line of strong, sovereign Wiradjuri women. […]
The Madman Anime Festival will run for two days at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre on the 4th & 5th of November 2017. This pop-culture convention will consist of many anime pop-culture stalls and displays from all sorts of anime companies and products. We will have an Amnesty International stall within this event as […]
Following President Trump’s decision to revoke the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme, affecting the future of nearly 800,000 people in the US, journalist Liz Fields takes a look at the upshot of Trump’s presidency — so far — on human rights and civil liberties. A new world order has set in, and an […]
The Lebanese authorities must disclose the full findings of their investigation into the deaths of four Syrian refugees, said Amnesty International, after the country’s military prosecutor yesterday revealed that a forensic report concluded that they had died of “natural causes”. The men died after they were arrested in a military raid on the town of […]
By guest blogger Milly Stilinovic Milly Stilinovic, like the rest of us, goes about her daily routine in ignorance of the human rights violations she is inadvertently contributing to across the span of an average day. Until the penny drops. It’s 7:45 AM on a Monday. I have managed to oversleep my alarm and have […]
Amnesty International experts have digitally verified images and footage from the shooting and found bullets were fired directly into the centre. Calls for accountability renewed one month on from incident Australian government deliberately fails to take responsibility for people’s lives Digital verification of images and videos establishes that bullets were fired directly into the Manus […]
An independent investigation into Queensland’s youth justice system has recommended an overhaul of the old, broken approach of punishing vulnerable children, and instead working with communities to help young people. The Queensland Independent Review of Youth Detention was announced last August, the day after Amnesty International exposed images and allegations of abuse in detention on […]
New evidence has emerged of how the Huthi armed group is actively recruiting boys as young as 15 to fight as child soldiers on the front lines of the conflict in Yemen. Amnesty International has spoken to the families of three boys targeted this month by the appalling practice which violates international law. The families […]
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